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table of contents
  1. Title page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. List of illustrations
  5. Notes on contributors
  6. Introduction: Latin America and the Caribbean’s more-than-human pasts
    1. Notes
    2. References
  7. 1. Performative objects: Konduri iconography as a window into precolonial Amazonian ontologies
    1. The ethnological study of perception and other modes of figuration
    2. A perspectivist iconography: motifs, attributes, relevance and visual themes
    3. Konduri visual strategies: alternation and anatropy
    4. An iconography of invisible beings
    5. Conclusion
    6. Notes
    7. References
  8. 2. Under a weak sun at the southern rim of South America (1540–1650)
    1. The smoking gun of the LIA in southern South America
    2. The coming of the Maunder Minimum
    3. Conclusion
    4. Notes
    5. References
      1. Archival and primary sources
  9. 3. Extreme weather in New Spain and Guatemala: the Great Drought (1768–73)
    1. The climate and its adverse effects
    2. The ‘mother of all evils’
    3. Drought and crisis
    4. Conclusion
    5. Notes
    6. References
      1. Archival and primary sources
  10. 4. Water labour: urban metabolism, energy and rivers in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    1. Carrying energy and matter into the city
    2. Transformations within the river/urban system
    3. Effluents, waste and products leave the river/urban system
    4. The need for more rivers
    5. Conclusion
    6. Notes
    7. References
      1. Archival and primary sources
  11. 5. Forjadores de la nación: rethinking the role of earthquakes in Chilean history
    1. Earthquakes in (traditional) Chilean history
    2. Not God but earthquakes (1810–1906)
    3. The earthquake’s agenda (1906–2010)
    4. Conclusions: Chile’s 200-year earthquake
    5. Notes
    6. References
      1. Archival and primary sources
  12. 6. Human–insect relations in Northeast Brazil’s twentieth-century sugar industry
    1. On history, once more
    2. Back to sugar, humans and insects in Brazil
    3. Human–sugar–insect relations
    4. Notes
    5. References
      1. Archival and primary sources
  13. 7. ‘We are the air, the land, the pampas …’: campesino politics and the other-than-human in highland Bolivia 1970–90
    1. Conceptualising the other-than-human in Latin America
    2. Origins of the campesino movement and the rise of the CSUTCB
    3. The CSUTCB and campesino ecological ontologies
    4. Conclusion
    5. Notes
    6. References
      1. Archival and primary sources
  14. 8. Tongues in trees and sermons in stones: Jason Allen-Paisant’s ecopoetics in Thinking with Trees
    1. Notes
    2. References
      1. Primary sources
  15. 9. Animating the waters, hydrating history: control and contingency in Latin American animations
    1. Abuela Grillo: privatisation and the Water War in Cochabamba
    2. Nimbus, o Caçador de Nuvens: water and developmentalism in Brazil
    3. Indifference, dissolution and contingency
    4. Final remarks
    5. Notes
    6. References
      1. Primary sources
  16. Afterword: more complete stories and better explanations for a renewed worldview
    1. Notes
    2. References
  17. Index

More-Than-Human Histories of Latin America and the Caribbean Decentring the Human in Environmental History

Edited by Diogo de Carvalho Cabral,

André Vasques Vital and

Margarita Gascón

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